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Ancestry Library Edition

(Genealogy)

Genealogy resource especially for U.S. and Canadian records. Includes census, birth, marriage, death, immigration, military records and more.
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Canadian Reference Centre

(Book Reviews, Images, Newspapers & Magazines, Reference Books)

Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; full text biographies and an Image Collection. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Driver's Ed Database

(Online Learning)

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Explora Canada

(Book Reviews, Encyclopedias, Images, Newspapers & Magazines)

This general interface provides access to Canadian Reference Centre, Consumer Health Complete, Literary Reference Centre Plus, Masterfile Complete and Primary Search.
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Explora Primary Canada

(Book Reviews, Encyclopedias, For Children, Images, Newspapers & Magazines)

This children's interface for Funk and Wagnall's and Primary Search provides full text for popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

(Encyclopedias)

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Lynda

(Online Learning)

Lynda.com is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Through individual, corporate, academic and government subscriptions, members have access to the Lynda.com video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.
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MasterFILE Complete

(Encyclopedias, Images)

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Novelist

(Book Reviews, Finding Books to Read)

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
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Novelist K-8

(Book Reviews, Finding Books to Read, For Children)

NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles that teachers may use in the classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of students and teachers. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.
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Rosetta Stone

(Language Learning, Online Learning)

An online language learning service. Rosetta Stone provides lessons to build reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
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Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
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